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Police say man operated meth lab from his vehicle

The Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team has arrested a Lexington man they believe was operating a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in a vehicle.

Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said NET officers arrested Harold Ray Taylor, 43, of Ray Price Road, at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on two counts of manufacturing methamphetamine, two counts of trafficking in pseudoephedrine, one count of unlawfully disposing of waste from a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory and one count of simple possession of marijuana.

Taylor was being held at the Lexington County Detention Center while awaiting a bond hearing.

Reports indicate the suspect was the subject of an ongoing undercover investigation of methamphetamine trafficking and manufacturing in the Batesburg-Leesville and Gilbert communities. Officers developed information that a mobile methamphetamine laboratory was being operated in a vehicle in Lexington and Saluda counties.

On Tuesday, officers say they saw the suspect breaking up pills and pouring chemicals while driving on U.S. 378, Metts said.

Officers conducted a traffic stop at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. 378 near the intersection with Devils Backbone Road. During the stop, they say they found an operational mobile methamphetamine laboratory as well as a large number of pseudoephedrine pills and a small amount of marijuana, Metts said.

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